Home Budget Tracker - helps you manage day to day spending. Use it to input receipts, track account balances, stick to your budget, and reconcile statements. Designed to be used by individuals and couples on the go at any stage of life.

Income Spending Simulator - projects the course of your financial life. It is useful when considering career changes, major lifestyle choices and retirement (how soon and how wealthy). For numbers oriented people it can be fun to play with as it is designed to be open-ended. The compare mode shows you what a specific change would have on cash flow, asset appreciation, and ending net worth.

This post explains the investment categories that are commonly found in funds and prospectuses. These asset classes come with complex risk/benefit calculations and can be used to tailor a portfolio to the nth degree.

Knowing your asset allocation is essential to being a successful investor. It tells what percentage of your overall portfolio is in stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles like real estate, precious metals, etc.

Retiring at age 65 sounds nice—but doesn’t retirement at age 30 sound even better? That’s the idea behind FIRE, which stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. The concepts that go into it will help you ...

Net worth, the yard stick for comparing financial success is a loosely defined term (irritatingly so to our brains). See our diagram for the break down of "total" vs "investable" net worth. After you read ...

Identity thieves are out to steal your personal information so they can borrow in your name, access your benefits, or drain your accounts before you notice. There are a few simple steps you can take ...

In terms of raw take home pay, hourly can be much better compared to a salaried job with long hours. Salaried people should know their equivalent hourly wage especially when working more than 40 hours ...

The best day in my financial life was the day I started automating my retirement contributions. I recall a lot of stress in past years centered around market conditions, getting the ‘best deal’, and second ...